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My Fellowship Journey

mickyates April 29, 2021 Aftermath, Audience, Cambodia, Dark Tourism, Documentary, Genocide, History, Holocaust, Ideas, Infrared, Landscape, Mick's Photo Blog, Olympus, Photography, Unfinished Stories Leave a Comment

I have just been honoured to receive the Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS) for my Unfinished Stories work in the Contemporary Photography category. This project is on the personal stories of friends who survived the Khmer Rouge Genocide. The first and last images of the panel are shown below. The full Fellowship Panel and Statement is here: https://www.mickyatesphotography.com/Features/Fellowship-Panel/ Despite all …

Ken Baird

mickyates April 23, 2021 Documentary, History, Mick's Photo Blog, Photography, Reportage Leave a Comment

I have a set of the TimeLife Photography Yearbooks, for the period 1973-1983, which cover the latest news in photography – events, technology, books and ‘discoveries’. These yearbooks accompanied Time-Life’s 17 volume series on photography which I collected as they were released – an important part of my photography education, and still extremely useful today. In the 1997/78 Yearbook, British …

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My work is ‘Unfinished Stories’. Life is always in motion, every moment creates a sense of place or personality. Having travelled and worked all over the world, my photography is informed by my view that we are more the same than we are different – yet differences reveal stories. Details matter.

I seek intimacy, rapport with and understanding of the subject, whilst asking questions about who people are, what they’re doing, and what concerns them. I deliver to the best standard that I know how: technically, artistically, respectfully, ethically.

The aim is to fairly represent the subjects of my work, whilst challenging clients and audiences with engaging and creative story-telling.

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